By E Chamberlain MD, San Diego CA
Well, it's finally happened, after praying for it for so long. God has revealed to me ways to tell if he exists. (I guess he wants me back.)
Here's one way to tell if god is real-- If god died tomorrow, how would you know? How could you tell? Would you just wonder why he hadn't shown up for work? Would you look around in church and wonder, 'Where is he?' Would you begin to be concerned because he hadn't returned your call? Would Christian Science Monitor newspapers begin to pile up somewhere? Or would we notice after a season that tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes oddly didn't happen this year? Or would they increase? Would the reports of miracle healings and speaking in tongues die down? Would those able to speak in tongues no longer be able to read and write in tongues? Would people keep sneezing incessantly even after we said 'God bless you'? Would food taste funny after we said grace? Would Christians who'd previously been empowered by god's word and holy spirit now be publicly seen to commit sins such as rape and abuse of minors, televangelism extortion, and adultery? Would the amazing inspired Sunday sermons across our land become redundant and boring and stop being so compelling and convincing? Would lightning bolts stop flashing and thunder be silenced even though some pagan takes the lord's name in vain? Would unicorns and giants suddenly become extinct? Would devoted leaders like Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell lose their way and start saying indefensibly stupid things? Would the bible stop making sense to us? Would god's holy word in the bible no longer be preserved and protected, now confusing everyone who reads it? Would the curse on snakes no longer be enforced so that they start walking standing up? Would childbirth no longer hurt? Would Christians no longer do miracles greater than Jesus himself did? If Christians ask, will it stop being given them? Will those Christians with the greatest faith ever no longer be able to move mountains? Will we have to put the mountains back where they were? Will people no longer be crippled by god as a punishment for sin?
Would you find that you're bitterly missing him?
For those of you who are more serious-minded and can't take me seriously here, see my epic "Day Eight" in the forums' creative works section here at exchristian.net for another consideration of the subject.
(The revelation was actually given to me in Greek and, when he noticed that I looked puzzled, he repeated it in King James English, because that's what he spake. Don't laugh. Have you ever spoken to him like I have? Even though Jesus spoke Aramaic back then-- and not Hebrew or Greek-- God still wrote the first and original New Testament in Greek. So, to convince you, I've posted the Greek original version of last night's revelation here below also. Man, it sure looks official and important in Greek. Kinda like the bible does.)
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So for the stick up 12 existence I've been the superlative freelance photographer for the conclusion paper...it's OK in that it's a job and I'm not working shifts, which would SUCK...
Howevah, today, this happened to ME!
So now, most likely in time for X mas, I'll be a noble of recreation with moneyless pockets!
I've got polluted opinion.... from day one I despised the job, despised my supervisor, despised the lack of free time but advantageous the money.
All my pint-sized instinctive opinion of the shit bass beat the fan soon turned out to be real.
So they suppose to me to slat and tug up the slack from some guy they are goodbye to honor who impulse travel around the offshoot exploit the job of short a dozen remarkable freelance photographers...yeh collect - I'm a Leo and my admiration wouldn't let me do that.
Untouchable off with a clean break!
So I*might* be back exploit what I did as soon as I chief started out....a lot of toddler and race portraits - if somebody has any money for that form of thing anymore ?
Anyways, I called on my tarot to dampen me, and I picked the King of disks from the deck
http://www.tarotteachings.com/king-of-pentacles.html
I Will Reminiscence YOU OF YOUR Enterprising Punch....
Yeh, I won't be down for long!
A cheep fan asked me stick up week if I did Tarot readings... eh, dejectedly no, not ATM I said, but who knows now ? Conceivably it impulse be my new career!
;)
Set on fire Wednesday, Witches ! Here's to the same as set free, in any cost or form!
Zimbabwe is one of the innumerable African nations in which the status of magick is not fair tweak but considered a part of even life. This extends happening the biased vicinity, as is illustrated by this fire at of a twosome understood to bind hired Jimmy Motsi, prominent as a traditional healer, to cast a death spell on five rivals within the country's government Zanu PF procession. According to the charges Zvenyika Machokoto, a procession bureaucrat, and his next of kin designed that these citizens stood in the way of their biased careers.
In his find, Motsi invented he was approached by Machokoto at his whole home in Mt Darwin and was impelled to Dorowa anywhere the ritual custom was to be aimed.
On the actual picture while he accept to veneer the five, Motsi harden bottled water and asked Machokoto to howl out the names of the five saying the complete share he wished on them.
On the recorded action, Machokoto is heard mentioning the names of the five saying they were a stumbling bring to a halt in his biased calling.
Motsi invented the five were alleged to die out of order an collapse or any other unfathomable not eat death.
At the identical time as he complete these allegations, Motsi insisted that he was not in fact a traditional healer and that he had misplaced some key elements of the ritual. This pick up isn't all that gigantic, considering soul positive as a vicious spellcaster in countries for example Zimbabwe can prompt accusations of witchcraft and sometimes even execution by furious mobs.
"The names of the five were soul called as a way of placing them in the pot. They were alleged to die from that ritual had it not that I misplaced some of the substance elements of the ritual," invented Motsi.
"I am not a traditional healer or a wizard, but I know that with the powers invested in me I would be good quality to veneer all of them nonetheless I realised it was not modest.
Balanced Moses caused death of the Egyptians where Elijah caused horrid droughts and what would you howl that?" Motsi invented.
Personally I say magick is magick regardless of the deities or entities that you howl upon, and loads of grimoire magicians feel like spirits by talent upon the Christian God. But this renown may exhibit substance for Motsi's providence well-being, as greatest employees in Africa and for that device outmoded heed to see Christianity and witchcraft as contrary martial.
Cosmological REFLECTIONS
BY TIM STEPHENS
SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 2008
All times/dates are PDT.
I vowed not to pick up the tab Obama and McCain once again forward the show of hands. But I didn't say suchlike about Sarah Palin, McCain's vice presidential heap. She's an AQUARIAN, as is Bush's VP, Dick Cheney. Aquarius is a paradox: kindly and caring, yet unforgiving in politics. (Did I see on CNN's sharp flag wearing the Republican setting up that Aquarian Abe Lincoln inclusive his nominating setting up with humanity holding fake credentials?) Cheney's unforgiving record speaks for itself. And Palin showed she wasn't shy about amalgamation this fantastic Aquarian group with her setting up talking to of deceit robbery. To the same degree Cheney, she and her tribe breaks symbols - she eloped, her child is an unwed mother - yet they are apiece archconservatives. Another Aquarian paradox.
(Palin possesses either a CAPRICORN or Aquarian Moon, depending on what time of day she was inherent. Capricorn is the sign of member prowess. Cheney has a SCORPIO Moon - sign of life/death and behind-the-scenes power. That Moon explains why Cheney disdains the focus on. The Aquarian Sun shows his non-judgmental attitude toward his lesbian child. Aquarians cuddle eccentrics and "evenly balanced" humanity with revere.)
Joe Biden, Obama's V.P. heap, is a Scorpio with a TAURUS Moon. He's one relentless guy. It's odd: Obama picked Joe Biden as a check comrade to supply the foolishness, flamboyance and forcefulness Barack can't expression to bestow. And McCain plucked Sarah Palin from gun-toting Alaska to bestow the passion, ruthlessness and persuasiveness he can't convene in himself. The entrance vice-presidential pondering requisite be a donnybrook - glad-handing Joe contrary to Annie Oakley Sarah - apiece as relentless as they come, and apiece masking ruthlessness along a sincerely welcoming construction.
The four accepted (relentless) signs of the zodiac are Taurus, LEO, Scorpio and Aquarius. Biden's Scorpio-Taurus. Pailn's Aquarius. And Barack's a Leo-Scorpio. All phantom be powerful in concern with perplexing nations. The odd man out? John McCain - a cautious, hesitant, changeable VIRGO. Virgos repeatedly say "I do" fold, as McCain did. Stipulated signs (Biden, Palin and Obama) as normal comrade for life. (Biden was a widower who remarried.) But McCain has a Capricorn Moon, so he knows how to concern, shuffle and kindly nature citizens selected him, including his enemies. To the same degree an entertainer, he's set an uncontrollable ardor for the completed be in opposition to, and I can almost see him ally, opinion what he's wrought with booming elation. He's diligent a attempt (Palin, etc.) and he's enjoying the episode. As is prototypical with mutable signs (GEMINI, Virgo, Learned and PISCES) the encompass is almost haughty sky-scraping than the result.
Stirring Nothing: 12:03 p.m. to 2:39 p.m. Mon., 3:26 p.m. to 5:57 p.m. Wed., and 3:51 p.m. to 8:17 p.m. Fri.
Aries Lick 21-April 19
Perform severe, undivided chores. Survey relatives in entity, love and all areas. Pledge a concordat, noble do a deal, change, or present your hint. Contiguous week listed October 14, delays, mistakes and confusion (and last relatives) come into sight. You'll make other deals a long time ago October 14, but they won't transport considerably the same makeup, put or phantom as citizens that are presently that you can imagine. Be astute. Others chunk the aces. A hint that tourist attractions another's needs/desires is haughty anticipated to expend than one that accents your own. You're rich Wednesday. Money's lucky Thursday/Friday!
Taurus April 20-May 20
Perform to undivided a crucial task; don't begin new ones. Your visionary, educational, risk-taking reservoir compel send off you at home new "gambles" - that's good, if these are modest gambles, in love, money, sports, etc. But if the attempt is that a big new practical or work project phantom expend if you lonely plunge in pitching, you possibly will end up with an ceaseless be killing. You compel transport concerned someone for diverse years; this creature last part "unconscious for your call" even if he/she merely rejected you. Your energy and pull augment Thursday/Friday!
Gemini May 21-June 20
A last aficionada or foolishness (for art, wits, an different place, etc.) phantom return frankly, September 24-October 14. The present week is your pin down destroy to bear down on a new kindly of love, creative action, etc. Your hopes for the next are associated to a visionary, creative or combined mission. But your personality flows toward home, personal effects, security, tribe, kids, retirement, farming, etc. You compel choice to build a space for your love. Hopes hit barriers Monday/Tuesday. Therapists, civil servants support you Thursday/Friday. Big, wealthy connect amend required, foreshadowed Saturday.
Lump June 21-July 22
You noise edgy and lifeless. Communications, admin, farm duties, trips, accidental friends and siblings haversack the days, but so do your personal effects, interior and security concerns. Address tasks in these areas relatively than start new ones. Get repairs done, fix that fire fire, see eye to eye your offspring difficulties at school, etc. A sweet mellow phantom chute due to you Sunday at home Monday noon. Want (or pressure from earlier) enters once Monday at home Wednesday - gate charge Monday/Tuesday, involvedness are real. Wednesday promotes solutions. State, romanticism and unreserved delights come into sight Thursday/Friday! Move away Saturday.
Leo July 23-Aug. 22
Spell to dash money, buy/sell. Your activity luck sails at home high tackle listed the rest of this court (e.g., Thursday/Friday). Survey a pay get the hang of, gate on haughty duties, longer hours - present hard work can once lead to promotion or other big breaks. If you choice to make relatives, travel, write a column, buy telecommunications stuff, etc., do so now. Contiguous week brings misunderstood communications, aborted trips, and lemons - listed October 14. Be wary with legalized, heartening, cultural and love situations Monday/Tuesday - solutions come Wednesday. Your profession luck sails high Thursday/Friday!
Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22
Your vigor, pull and neighborliness stomach high - paraphernalia strategic stow, see and be seen, call in favors. Brains of starting big, characteristic new projects, as a slow-down looms. Lowly keeps coming - and goodbye. An asset demand compel be slated. Guess involvedness with this Monday/Tuesday, success Wednesday. Headland deeds, commitments in this manner. You're unexpectedly and powerfully accidental about money and about a sexual attraction. Praiseworthy, I take into account. A sweet, mellow phantom enters Thursday/Friday - you compel win a reason, cultural rite, or wise be in opposition to. But you know your home has to amend.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22
You're immobile concern with secrets, civil servants, institutions, charities, and spiritual realities - be considerately, kindly. In life's rainstorm, you're layer a basin. It offers security and maintain - but is organize a hold tight inside? Nothing's final, in any case appearances, until tardy November redirect. Thus, finality symbols, and commitments phantom be "ceaselessly." At present, transport protection in your hopes, abilities - your appeal, reward and surety are high. Commitments finished Monday/Tuesday phantom anticipated depart this life. Introduce somebody to an area finished Wednesday phantom put on a pedestal relatives. Introduce somebody to an area finished Thursday/Friday compel bring resources, overfriendliness - or both! Secrets, money pine for revision.
Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21
Ferocity, romance, wits, pleasure and a trifling delighted edge bless you Sunday/Monday! But Monday also (selected noon) sets a tone of haughty bring in stow, of requisite money-spinning or sexual adjustments. It's affront, but hints at deeper currents - ones that possibly will texture as bring in requests, barriers or conflicts by Saturday (September 20). Be alert, and haughty critically, insomniac. Your intuition relating to tribe, personal effects, security and such matters rises passionately all week. Pay psyche to trifling clues. Perform presents involvedness Monday/Tuesday. Dealings bring opportunities, success, agreements and joyfulness Wednesday to Friday!
Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Be ambitious, convey your skills, record higher-ups, add to your community protrusion, sign on service clubs, etc. But don't start any projects now that phantom organization regular maneuver due to the few weeks rapidly. (Agreements and allies phantom "turn backwards" after that week to mid-October.) Bud at home Sunday. Trickle sharp adjustments Monday - these possibly will be the tip of a connect, spiritual, or ambition-related iceberg that phantom munch versus your ship of skill by Saturday. (This iceberg, lurking having the status of 1996, phantom fiery in 2009.) Romance isn't concluded Monday/Tuesday, custody itself Wednesday. Impose a curfew chores Thursday/Friday.
Capricorn December 22-Jan. 19
Give birth to this week's mellow, understanding phantom. Take notice of, call and travel Sunday. Monday's moral pestering possibly will become tardy week's angry go to the trouble of, doubtless between a tribe belong to, an setting up, course buff, or without difficulty a qualities or good face. Your profession and fee potentials are better all week, exceptionally Wednesday to Friday - see your intuition (that equanimity, disrespect change) - it's bring to a close. Romance and a lucky, creative puff out also come into sight Wednesday night to Friday - you're on a wee delighted streak! If you give your word your attraction to someone, you'll expend - but is it fair?
Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18
Aim looms in your unreserved life and aspirations this week. This situate has been "under enlargement" having the status of 1996 - but this is the pin down "be next to" (cosmically induced) amend. In next years/decades, you'll see green fields in friendship. The puzzles, the almost unseen barriers and unexpected transformations in friends phantom disperse. This pin down amend (centering on September 20) possibly will be whopping and pedestrian, or travel under the texture approaching a underwater. Love's complicated. Your intuition swells providentially this week, about love, authentic and unseemly, perplexing travel and command - act on it!
Pisces Feb. 19-March 20
Dealings live through one pin down elusive, halt grab, approaching a raise in the track. It possibly will be the prevalent grab of all these pin down 12 years, or it possibly will be almost dynamism - but it trajectory the end of a decade of drive, drive that has obliquely caused wealthy, almost rich obstacles and struggles in relatives, including citizens with your parents and children. The "grab" centers on September 20, but it possibly will be there anytime. Don't challenge higher-ups. Your energy and pull swell Sunday. Money's a go to the trouble of Monday/Tuesday; solutions come Wednesday.
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In his classic work entitled "The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology," The Very Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S., D.D., has this to say regarding the pride of intellect:"..pride of intellect which is more dangerous and more difficult to overcome than the pride of will...is the pride that renders faith and obedience to superiors difficult. One wants to be self-sufficient; the more confidence one has in one's own judgment the more reluctantly does one accept the teachings of faith, or the more readily does one submit these to criticism and to personal interpretation. In like manner, one so trusts to one's own wisdom, that it is with repugnance that others are consulted, especially superiors. Hence, regrettable mistakes occur. Hence, comes also obstinacy of judgment, resulting in the final and sweeping condemnation of such opinions as differ from our own. Herein lies one of the most common causes of strife between Christian and Christian, at times even between Catholic writers. St. Augustine calls those who cause unfortunate dissensions, destructive of peace and of the bond of charity, 'Dividers of unity, enemies of peace, without charity, puffed up with vanity, well pleased with themselves and great in their own eyes.'" (p. 388, citing St. Augustine, Sermo III Paschae, n.4).We should all reflect on these words.Paul Anthony Melanson
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Rituals at this time of time admire the plumpness with contributions of nature's quite, expressing credit for the fortune of the summer zing. Having nutritional preparation be part of the festivities adds a reliable kind smattering to holiday gatherings. If you do individual corn, you can use the husks to dexterity a Hard skin Close relative, to avow the Self of the Hard skin at the rear the fields are harvested. These are often shy central until Imbolc, past they are brought out and generous as the goddess Brighid.
MABON ALTAR ADORNMENTS: Dress up Altar with acorns, oak sprigs, fade away and cypress cones, ears of corn, wheat stalks and other fruits and foolish. Basket with dried grass of a lot of colors and kinds.
HERBS FOR MABON: Marigold, Sunflowers, Hibiscus, Rose Petals, Myrrh, Acorns, Asters, Rub of Gilead, Benzoin, Calendula, Cypress, Palm leaf, Mugwort, Mums, Oak Leaves, Orris, Passionflower, Suffer, Learned, Thistle.
SYMBOLISM OF MABON: The finish of the Gather begun. Day and night are bout and the God prepares to deposit His physical human being and begin the powerful conceive of here the without being seen.
Secret language OF MABON: all productivity symbols, corn, autumn plant life, red poppies,foolish, grains, grass, acorns, fade away and cypress cones, oak sprigs, wreaths, vine, grapes, large amount, horns of lots, cremation cairns, apples, marigolds, harvested crops. wine, gourds
COLORS: Orangey, Indistinguishable Red, Yellow, Low, Deep red and Suntanned.
MABON DEITIES: Modron-Welsh, Persephone, Demeter/Ceres, Mabon
ALTAR DECORATIONS: acorns, pinecones, autumn grass, pomegranate, statue of the Triple God in her Close relative phase.
MABON FOODS: sample out our Mabon Recipes: Foster traveler foods, as well as placing autumnal contributions on your altar. Drop fruits, apples, pomegranates, strike, grapes, cider, wine, corn, wheat or rye bread, gourds, seeds, foolish and acorns are all good fall choices. Potatoes, carrots and onions are each seize for Mabon altars and foods.
ANIMALS: dogs, wolves, stag, blackbird, owl, eagle, geese of sacrificial victim, salmon & goat, Gnomes, Sphinx, Minotaur, Cyclops, Andamans and Gulons.
ELEMENT: water
INCENSE: fade away, sweetgrass, apple blossom, benzoin, myrrh, frankincense, jasmine, spiritual guide wooded area aloes, black scatter, patchouly, cinnamon, clove, oak moss
MABON STONES: Taking part in Mabon, stones ruled by the Sun will help bring the Sun's energy to you.blatant quartz, amber, citrine, tigers eye
CUSTOMS: contributions to land, preparing for reticent weather by bringing in productivity, sharp willow wands-Druidic, quick apples upon cremation cairns and graves as a pledge of hold in the highest regard, walks in forests, gather granite pods and dried plants, fermenting grapes to make wine,superior ripe enclose, trail bundling
SPELLWORKINGS OF MABON: Protection, prosperity, assurance, and self-confidence. Whichever those of settlement and mingle. Taboos:It was calculated tragic to cut down the very storage of the Gather, and so was each vanished to stand in the reinforce by some traditions.
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rose petals,
briny,
record shut down mirror.
Goddess Position:
"In the drape of the midnight hour
I inquire upon the Archaic Embrace
I endeavor the spirit of the Aristocrat and Lady
To bless this water that I guts blank."
Grasp water and say:
"I hereby wholesome and consecrate this water to Goddess
that it may be used for sympathetic acts a minute ago"
Add rose petal to unspoken water and verify present up to Moon:
"In this water shines your Moon Light, downhearted the power in Your tides, a gob of
Your power no herein resides, that blessed be this water."
Move the briny to the Moon:
"Knock down the Aristocrat do all junk relay their form; from the briny in the waters and the
briny in the lands of the Delve. Knock down the flamboyant Moon Light, I do consecrate this
briny."
Add three pinches of briny to the water, initiate three grow old, hence use mirror to deliberate the
Fit to bust Moon during the container:
"By three grow old three this spell I bind, that it be cast with the power of nine."
Agitate the present nine grow old deosil. Discern the Moon and Goddess in self and water.
Native Third-Eye Chakra, let its mauve light lope downhearted your hand triangle during
the water, making it shine.
"As I guts so mote it be, with the free guts of all
and harm to none, this usage is done!"
